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Past highlights
 

2008

  • Norfolk & Norwich Festival
    Stravinsky Les Noces with Michael Clark Company, Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Jurjen Hempel
  • St Marylebone Church, London NW1 - In Memoriam Karlheinz Stockhausen
    Stockhausen Litanei and works by Ruth Crawford Seeger, Holst, Messiaen, Jonathan Harvey, conducted by Jeremy Summerly
  • Philharmonia Hall, Liverpool
    With Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, conducted by Harry Bicket: Kenneth Hesketh Like the Sea, Like Time (world première)

2007

  • BMCCarbican Centre, London
    With Michael Clark Company, Britten Sinfonia, conducted by Jurien Hempel
    Stravinsky Les Noces

  • 7 Locks Festival, Northamptonshire
    13th century anon. The Play of Daniel, directed by Jeremy Summerly and modern-day premières of 12th century English song, directed by Helen Deemer

  • 'The Long Weekend', Tate Modern
    Alongside improvisations by Throbbing Gristle and films by Derek Jarman
    Hildur Gudnadóttir: The Shadow of the Sun, directed by the composer

  • Archipel Festival, Geneva, Switzerland
    Programme of works by Giacinto Scelsi

  • Nottingham, UK
    Bach St John Passion, with ViVa, conducted by Nicholas Kok

  • Recording project: Feldman For Stefan Wolpe and Rothko Chapel for Mode Records (release planned for 2008)

2006

  • St John's, Smith Square, London / BMIC Cutting Edge series
    Feldman For Stefan Wolpe, Harvey How could the soul not take flight?

  • Kerk van het Onbevlekt Hart van Maria, Maastricht, Netherlands
    James Wood Hildegard (completed version)

2005

  • Huddersfield / Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
    Works for unaccompanied voices and voices and percussion by Giacinto Scelsi, including two UK premières

  • Flanders Festival, Antwerp, Belgium
    With Champ d'Action, Percussion Group The Hague
    Excerpts from James Wood Hildegard (Belgian première)
    aslo concert of plainchant and polyphony by Browne, Tallis, Sheppard, and Byrd
  • Royal Albert Hall, London
    With BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martyn Brabbins
    Holst The Planets, Colin Matthews Pluto

  • Hildegard 2005 UK tour: James Wood Hildegard. Performances at Norwich Cathedral (world première), St John's Smith Square, St Davids Cathedral, and Salisbury Cathedral.

2004

  • Concert at Royaumont Abbey, France
    Francesconi Let Me Bleed (French première), Tallis Lamentations I & II

  • Concert at Liverpool Cathedral
    Stockhausen Litanei (UK première), 13th century anon. The Play of Daniel

  • Concert at the Aldeburgh Festival, Suffolk
    Janacek Hradcany Songs, Kaspar Rucky, Schubert Ständchen, works by Schumann, Holst, and Birtwistle

  • Concert in Mulhouse, France
    Harvey The Summer Cloud's Awakening, Lauds, Messiaen O sacrum convivium

2003

  • BBC Promenade Concert, Royal Albert Hall, UK with Amadinda
    Iannis Xenakis Idmen (UK première), Nuits
    James Wood Tongues of Fire (World première)

  • Aldeburgh Festival Concert, Orford, UK
    Mauricio Kagel Schwarzes Madrigal, Burleske (UK premières)
    David Sawer Stramm Gedichte
    and works by György Ligeti

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2002

  • Manca Festival, Nice, France
    Jonathan Harvey The Summer Cloud's Awakening (French première)
    Alejandro Viñao Epitafios
    and works by György Ligeti

  • Dublin International Organ & Choral Festival, Dublin, Ireland
    David Sawer Stramm Gedichte (Irish première)
    Luca Francesconi Let me bleed (Irish première)
    Claude Vivier O! Kosmos (Irish première)
    works by Jonathan Harvey, Brahms, and Schönberg

  • Bath International Music Festival, Bath, UK
    20th Anniversary concert (broadcast by BBC Radio 3)
    David Sawer Stramm Gedichte (commissioned by NLCC, world première)
    Luca Francesconi Let Me Bleed
    works by Jonathan Harvey and Claude Vivier

  • Oxford Contemporary Music, Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK
    20th Anniversary concert
    Jonathan Harvey The Summer Cloud's Awakening (commissioned by NLCC for choir, live electronics, flute & cello, world première)
    works by Lassus, Tallis, Gabrieli and Schütz

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2001

  • Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, St Paul's Hall, Huddersfield, UK
    20th Anniversary concert
    Luca Francesconi Let me bleed (world première of commission by NLCC and Isabel Nisbet)
    Tristan-Patrice Challulau Farben (NLCC Competition Winner world première)
    Alejandro Viñao Epitafios (UK première of NLCC 1999 commission)

  • Sadler's Wells Theatre, UK with Rambert Dance Company and London Musici, conducted by Paul Hoskins
    Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

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2000

  • Flanders Festival, Leuven, Belgium. Programme of music by Stravinsky, conducted by James Wood.
    Les Noces (including the version with pianola, cymbaloms, and percussion), Four Russian Peasant Songs, The dove descending, Introitus: T S Eliot in memoriam

  • BBC Promenade concert with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Singers conducted by Jac van Steen
    Jonathan Harvey Mothers Shall Not Cry (world première)

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© 2007
New London Chamber Choir
Patron: Pierre Boulez
Musical Director: James Weeks